"Our Tradition is Change" Reformation 2021 by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Happy Reformation Sunday everyone! See, I told you, you thought it was Halloween, you were wrong. Just kidding. But every year on...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Oct 25, 2021
- 5 min
"What's in a Name?" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 10:46-52 Names are a big deal. What we are called. And what we prefer to be called right? My full first name is Alexandra, (in...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Oct 21, 2021
- 5 min
"Mean Girls" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 10:35-45 So middle school right? We’ve all been there. It’s really important to be cool in middle school. To be popular, to be...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Sep 28, 2021
- 4 min
"The Path Not To The Dark Side" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 9:28-50 At the end of Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith, there’s a scene where Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
"I'm Not Sorry You Are Called" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 8:27-38 So. Mark’s Gospel is only 16 chapters. It is the shortest of the Gospels and here at the end of chapter 8, we are...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
"Is Jesus a Jerk?" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 7:24-37 The story we encounter in our gospel lesson today where Jesus meets the Syrophenecian woman is one that can be a bit...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
"I Never Wanted To Be A Princess" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 7:1-8,14-15, 21-23 They say every little girl growing up wants to be a princess. Dreams about fancy castles, Disney really...
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Salem Lutheran Church
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
"Now What?" by Vicar Charlie Frekot
Read John 6:56-69 and Ephesians 6:10-20 Grace and peace to you all this morning. This is the last Sunday of the Bread of life discourse...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
"The Perspective of an Ant" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Ephesians 5:15-20 In 1998, a great Disney Pixar movie came out, “A Bug’s Life”. Maybe you have seen it…. I was obsessed. Like more...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Aug 11, 2021
- 7 min
"Cloaked in Honor" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Ephesians 4:25-5:2 A few years ago, I spent a year living in Jersey City, New Jersey to for my internship, as an intern pastor at a...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Aug 3, 2021
- 4 min
"When I Grow Up, I Want To Be Like Jesus" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Ephesians 4:1-16 On our journey this week in the Letter of Ephesians, we continue to learn more about this vast love of Christ. And...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Jul 29, 2021
- 4 min
"Insert Your Name HERE" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Ephesians 3:14-21 So last week on vacation with my mother and my brother, we went to an aquarium. A totally normal thing for a...
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Salem Lutheran Church
- Jul 12, 2021
- 0 min
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Jul 6, 2021
- 6 min
"What do you bring to the battle hymn? by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 A quote from the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, DC about a song, “Patriotic songs have...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
"Own Your Needs: The Bleeding Woman" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Mark 5:21-43 She gets up this morning and something is just different. She can feel it . She can’t really say why yet but as she...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Jun 20, 2021
- 4 min
"Juneteenth and the Lost Sheep" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
New Year’s Eve in African American congregations is celebrated a little differently than putting on party hats, toasting champagne, and...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- May 25, 2021
- 6 min
"Linguistic Hospitality" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Acts 2:1-21 After college I did this program through the ELCA called Young Adults in Global Mission. The program at the time took...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- May 11, 2021
- 4 min
"Unconditional, Irrevocable, and Infinite Love" by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read John 15:9-17 A few years ago on Mother’s Day, I was specifically asked to preach about Mother’s Day. I struggled with this a lot....
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
"We are not the gatekeepers of God's gifts. Full Stop." by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Read Acts 8:26-40 A few years ago when my nephew was very little, he was at church one Sunday with just my mom. When she went forward for...
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Pastor A.J. Houseman
- Apr 27, 2021
- 5 min
Our Symbiotic Relationship with the Earth and Christ by Pastor A.J. Houseman
Happy Earth Day! In the first season of the Big Bang Theory, Leonard and Sheldon are having one of their arguments. Where Leonard says,...
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